Darjeeling #4GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Ananda Pathak

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,22,556 19.1 pp

votes

over Prasanta Nandy (INC)

The contest

8 candidate rows

Electors12,38,587

Votes polled6,41,281

Turnout51.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.49 L52.4% of electorate

Female electors5.9 L47.6% of electorate

Sex ratio 909females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

8 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ananda Pathak	CPIM	2,80,589	43.80%
2	Prasanta Nandy	INC	1,58,033	24.60%
3	Dawa Nurbula	WBTC	1,14,688	17.90%
4	R B Rai	IND	51,681	8.10%
5	Paresh Ray	IND	12,609	2.00%
6	Surjit Rasaily	BSP	3,727	0.60%
7	L B Pariyar	IND	3,048	0.50%
8	Matiur Rahman	IND	2,594	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,312, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 626,969 · NOTA n/a · published 641,281 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998